stairwell
Example Sentences
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On weekends, sometimes a jazz band performs behind the stairwell and revelers dance in the eaves.
From Los Angeles Times
Less than half an hour later - two members of the Iranian delegation sprinted across the lobby, and down a stairwell leading to the basement carpark.
From BBC
Footage taken in the aftermath showed a fire blazing in what appeared to be a stairwell, while thick black plumes of smoke billowed from the upper floors.
From BBC
She’s hauled pigs down apartment stairwells and coaxed them into crates for transport.
William Ramsay, who lives in the area in the west of the city, said he believed the man with the weapons had entered the stairwell of his building.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
